When the company sought to retire a legacy imaging service and replace it with Tanium Provision, it also opted to work with Novacoast, a Tanium Partner. The company hoped Tanium would also help it meet five related goals: an easier transition to Windows 11; a re-architected imaging process that enabled faster changes; better network bandwidth at remote offices; a reduced need for imaging and OS refreshes to be done manually; and movement toward “zero touch” imaging and OS refreshes. The Tanium upgrade also needed to meet the company’s unique requirements. These included the need for certain applications to be installed during the imaging process; a requirement that the OS, when being refreshed on a device, join the domain and use the same Computer Object without having to first delete the object or add the endpoint name to an allowed-computer list. This session will look at the transition from the legacy imaging system to Tanium Provision and the result. What previously took weeks to develop on the legacy system can now be replicated on Tanium Provision in less than three days. As an added bonus, Tanium’s architecture has also alleviated the network bottlenecks that previously slowed the transmission of imaging files to the company’s remote sites. Overall, the company’s OS imaging process is now fully customized with Tanium. Compared with the legacy environment, the imaging process is now faster, more automated, and easier to maintain and modify.

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